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 Through
the lectures it sponsors and conferences it organizes, the Erasmus
Institute extends its reach beyond the walls of the American academy
to the wider world of international scholarship and the broader
arena of contemporary human concerns.
The Institute sponsors an annual lecture series on campus, the Notre
Dame Erasmus Lectures, delivered by a distinguished Catholic thinker
on a theme of his or her choosing that ranges beyond narrow disciplinary
confines. Each lecture series is subsequently published by the University of Notre Dame Press in the Erasmus Books series.
To fulfill the Institute’s international mission, most of its conferences have been held in cooperation with academic institutions elsewhere. Conference topics alternately explore
broad themes, such as the role that Catholic thought might play
in contemporary theorizing on the future of the state and the place
of Catholic intellectual traditions in current research in the humanities
and social sciences, and more focused issues, like those of reconciliation
in the countries of the former Yugoslavia and the role of religion
in creating civil societies in the Americas.
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